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When did Robert Lowell start making music?

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Robert Lowell's first song “Sailing Home from Rapallo” released on February 1, 1954.


Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was an American poet and a cornerstone of the confessional poetry movement.  His 1959 book, Life Studies, won the National Book Award.  He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in both 1947 and 1974 and was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for 1947 and 1948.

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